Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version is directed by Loeb's Wunderkind Josh Rubins '70, author of the well-received musical Suffragette! At the Loeb tonight through Saturday and July 7-12 at 8 p.m. except Saturday at 9. Tickets are a steep $5.50 and $6.50, but if you're a student and you get there 15 minutes early...
...course he was nobody's first choice. It was written for another Irishman, James Cagney, who turned it down. Twentieth Century-Fox then suggested Laurence Olivier, even Frank Sinatra, before Director Paul Mazursky called on Art. Even Carney was not sure he wanted it. "I liked Josh Greenfeld's script, but face it, I felt insecure playing a 72-year-old man." But his wife Barbara thought he would be crazy not to take it. So did his agent Bill McCaffrey, who said...
...this year? this decade?) and I plan to catch if it probably bears less resemblance to Norman Jewison's. Fiddler on the Roof than does Jesus Christ Superstar (also by Jewison, or Christianson as they called him on the Fiddler set) which has a kicked-out-jams performance by Josh Mostel, son of the Emperor Zero...
...police and the wreckers until his son arrives to hustle him off in embarrassment. After a few weeks spent living with his son's family, Harry realizes how many household problems he is aggravating and decides to visit his other children in Chicago and California. Writers Josh Greenfield and Paul Mazursky probably had King Lear's peregrinations in mind, but the comparison is so far-fetched that it hardly counts...
...same kind of sentimentality that Harry has used to coddle himself for so long. It also suffers from Art Carney's portrayal of Harry. He is studious and low-keyed, but his characterization lacks depth and misses the urgencies of old age. Like Carney, Mazursky and Co-Writer Josh Greenfeld are so eager to settle Harry down and give him some sort of peace that they make everything just a little too easy to take and to believe...